Comic Title: Superman #47
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1990
On Sale Date: July 24, 1990 Shipping Date July 24, 1990
Source: Previews, #17

Shipping Date July 24, 1990
Source: Amazing Heroes, #181

Copyright Date July 24, 1990
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1990

Direct Market Date July 26, 1990
Source: Comic Shop News, #152, Page 2

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Lives in the Balance"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Jerry Ordway
Inker: Dennis Janke
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)

Guest Star(s)

• Black Racer (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Jerry White (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Gangbuster (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Alice White (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)

Villain(s)

• Blaze (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Intergang (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #469; next appearance in Action Comics #657)
• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Skyhook (last appearance in Superman #34; no further appearances)
• Skagg (an Intergang boss; no further appearances)
• Denizens of Blaze's realm (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tammy Brown (last appearance in Superman #45; no further appearances)
• Jerry and Jimmy's doctor (last appearance in Action Comics #656; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #470)
• Patrons and staff at Blaze's club (no further appearances)

Comments:
Soul Search – Chapter Two

This story is continued from Action Comics #656 and continues in Adventures of Superman #470.

Synopsis:
Superman fights the denizens of Blaze's realm including Skyhook in an attempt to win back the souls of Jimmy Olsen and Jerry White. Back in Metropolis, Perry White learns that Jerry is actually Lex Luthor's biological son.

Elsewhere, the Black Racer recruits Gangbuster. He leads him to Blaze's club where the Intergang members who shot the boys are torching the building. Blaze kills the gunmen, while Gangbuster rescues those trapped inside.

Back in Blaze's domain, Superman frees Jimmy, but Jerry White has succumbed to Blaze's power and turns on them.